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…”Expect the Speaker to be taking sides in the BC political fray”…”Terror in Britain: Love is not enough”….

SOMETHING ABOUT….”the rules of the house are clear that in the event of a tie, the speaker “shall give a casting vote” to break the deadlock. A sure way to politicize the office by forcing the speaker to regularly take sides in the partisan fray.”

And so it will go soon!

SOMETHING ABOUT….“run, hide, tell, like ‘duck & cover’ was taught to a previous generation of school children. ‘Love will conquer hate’. But is love enough?….Is something more required? Obviously yes, but just what might that be? A dilemma.”

After a ‘pregnant pause‘ beyond a USA Thanksgiving & today’s ’round-the-world ‘Black Friday‘ consumerism sales, come Sunday, we’ll be right into another ADVENT I ‘adventure’ that resounds once again of hope! peace! love! & joy! for our world.

This Advent moon shines cold and clear, These Advent nights are long;Our lamps have burned year after year, And still their flame is strong.“Watchman, what of the night?” we cry, Heart-sick with hope deferred:“No speaking signs are in the sky,” Is still the watchman’s word.

The Porter watches at the gate, The servants watch within;The watch is long betimes and late, The prize is slow to win.“Watchman, what of the night?” but still His answer sounds the same:“No daybreak tops the utmost hill, Nor pale our lamps of flame.”

One to another hear them speak, The patient virgins wise:“Surely He is not far to seek,”– “All night we watch and rise.”“The days are evil looking back, The coming days are dim;Yet count we not His promise slack, But watch and wait for Him.”

One with another, soul with soul, They kindle fire from fire:“Friends watch us who have touched the goal.” “They urge us, come up higher.”“With them shall rest our waysore feet, With them is built our home,With Christ.” “They sweet, but He most sweet, Sweeter than honeycomb.”

There no more parting, no more pain, The distant ones brought near,The lost so long are found again, Long lost but longer dear:Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, Nor heart conceived that rest,With them our good things long deferred, With Jesus Christ our Best.

We weep because the night is long, We laugh, for day shall rise,We sing a slow contented song And knock at Paradise.Weeping we hold Him fast Who wept For us,–we hold Him fast;And will not let Him go except He bless us first or last.

…”UK pound slides to 31-year low after Brexit anxiety hits service sector”…”Welcome to the new Toronto: the most fascinatingly boring city in the world”…”Juno space probe orbits Jupiter”…

Under the realities of a shrinking British economy and the uncertainties surrounding government leadership and an organized exit from the EU, the British pound has fallen 12% since the Brexit vote.

Stability is something that’s likely to evade the British economy for many months to come.

So says, the UK Guardian headline!…Toronto, most boring city in the world. Yikes!

A city of others, they say.
A city of 51% foreign born with people from over 230 countries, making it by many assessments, the most diverse city in the world.
How much longer can a city so interesting insist on being so boring?, the article goes on to ask.

Hmmmm….

And as today’s google doodle alerts us to the orbit of the Juno space probe around Jupiter, a wee bit of nostalgia in song from an earlier time (1969):

…”We’re #2: Cellphone use dragging down Canada’s ranking as most socially progressive nation”…”Should there be a second EU referendum?”…”How did Great Britain become Little England?”…

It seems they’re saying, if more of us would only use cellphones, we could be the best country in the world! “As it stands, we’re a not-too-shabby second on the newly released 2016 Social Progress Index, trailing only Finland and far ahead of the United States, a much richer nation that staggers in at No. 19.”

Doesn’t this just sing–cheers to ‘social progress’!!!…

And so go some of the headlines about the fury in the UK.

The uncertainty about where and how the country moves forward seems to be quite tainted with a “poisonous anti-foreign sentiment in the air” from some perspectives.